Pre-Christmas!

Adventzeit! We did a few things each Sunday prior to Christmas ,we made gingerbread houses from scratch. Lilly helped make the dough and before she could help decorate with mommy & daddy she and Jace fell asleep. Jake and I felt like we were on a date at home. We both love design so it was fun. Lilly quickly understood that the houses had treats on them the next morning. So she would push the chair up to them chanting 'no no no' as she pulled pieces off to eat them Yummy candy! She was so proud of herself. "No No No" = mmmmm!Jace loved Santa's reindeer bells. Lilly... love anything about Santa? Um.. No so much!

We made a nice turkey dinner for Christmas Eve and read the Nativity Story from the bible afterwards. A tradition we are looking forward to doing every year. (It was my first turkey I ever cooked! and Surprise - it turned out perfect!)

On St. Nikolaus tag(day - December 6th) the children received a kids nativity set. They played with it all of December. A few favorites - Jace mauling the angel and trying to eat baby Jesus. Baby Jesus was placed higher for safe keeping. He also liked the sheep a lot. Lilly taking the manger apart and carrying it all through the house - everyday! My all time favorite was after we went to open gifts on Christmas day - Lilly went straight to the manger scene and started handing out the characters to all of us. It is precious to me that 'a young child shall lead them.'
We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and that you feel our Savior's love for each of you!